Greener and Sustainable Transportation

In most cities in Malaysia, very few people uses the bike paths.  Most users mainly cycle for recreational purposes only. In Holland, a country where cycling has become the norm, the dutch uses bicycle for their daily commuting to work, to school, to shop.. etc.. Making people leave their car at home and take public transportation still cannot be implemented in Malaysia. It has become a standard for one household to have three cars. This is also true for the lower middle income neighborhoods. We can see cars lined up the residential streets. I think we should make owning a second car expensive.. at the same time public transportation must be efficient, only then people would want to take the buses and trains. With that in place, we can hope people would cycle from home to the nearest transit station. Hmmm... it sounds like utopia at the rate we are going now.

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